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Popped to my out apiary this morning to check the food situation and to give them a blast of oxalic. To my horror I find that six out of the eleven hives have no bees! The others don't look very strong either. Four of the empties have no bees whatsoever and stacks of stores and a block of...

I have been offered a couple more apiary sites for the spring but both are close to osr fields. At the moment I avoid the stuff because I don't like dealing with the honey. Are there any companies that would buy the honey in bulk around the south? What price should I hope for? Thanks in advance

Some nice gentlemen stole a couple of vans in my area last Sunday, one of them my trusty transit. It had all my tools in so I have a little time on my hands as cannot work without. The police were not interested other than to give me a crime number,not interested in the CCTV of them driving it...

I made a three nucs a few weeks ago and noticed last week that two nucs were rammed so I put them into hives. The third had only a few eggs, under half a frame and was starting to be backfilled. I thought maybe the new queen mated later and was just starting to lay. This nuc had three frames...

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I found two frames in the top box of a double brood with huge holes in, as if they were eaten. The bees definitely not hungry as they have half filled a super over the last week or so. No evidence of rodents. This hive is quite defensive at times, I was covered yesterday and they stayed with me...

Last Sunday I had a nose through my bees and one colony on a single national brood was on only 6 frames of brood with the rest packed with stores. Due to my idiocy I decided to remove the stores and replace with drawn comb and put the stores above in another brood box with an excluder between. I...

Bumped in to a farmer yesterday while out with the dog. I asked about a possible apiary and he couldn't have been more helpful. Moving a couple of hives on Monday.

I made a couple of small splits last summer in case I lost some over winter. I lost none and this has left me with spares. One of my hives is a bit defensive and I'm going to re queen when I find her . My question is could I unite one of the nucs with the stroppy hive with a queen already laying...

I recently made a number of two frame nucs and they all seem to be busy and gradually increasing in bee numbers. I haven't fed as they are finding forage somewhere. I would like to treat all my colonies with apivar but wonder if I should wait until they are stronger. Will apivar be ok on these...

My garden hive has been getting progressively more stroppy over the last few weeks and I was going to requeen this month but at today's inspection they went mental,my wife was stung fifty yards away as well as three of my dogs. Anybody want them? I want them gone this evening or I'm going to...

I have one colony that is far stronger than the others and has filled a commercial brood box almost to bursting point with brood, they are well on the way to filling their third super. There are no queen cells as yet but I want to increase the number of hives even if it means no honey this year...

Due to a hand injury i havent been able to go through my bees since extracting and putting the wet supers back about two weeks ago. They seem very busy today and for the first time ever i have seen some bees returning with balsam pollen all over them,wish i could find where it is as i would be...

Ive just finished bottling the honey which i extracted yesterday and it seems quite dark, the stuff i took a month ago from the same hives is a light golden colour. It also seems thicker with a stronger taste. Why would this be?

I have a very strong colony in a commercial brood with a 2009 queen,they tried to swarm constantly in may so i did an a/s and they settled down. They have filled four supers with the fifth partially capped. I also have a colony that appeared in a bait hive with a new queen and they have been...

I have one colony with four supers capped and one with one super capped,i added supers of foundation to each of them yesterday so may end up with seven national supers full. How many 1lb jars will i need?

I need to part with my bees due to an impending divorce, i have a couple of national nucs and a couple of strong colonies in commercial brood. Complete with hives. The soon to be ex is threatening fly spray if thier not gone soon. I dont have an out apiary and the place im moving to is not...

I found a leaflet called 'raise your own queens' by the punched cell method by Richard Smailes. It was inside a beekeeping book i was given,its a bit tatty but if anyone wants it pm me with an address and ill send it.

After discovering that the two bait hives on my shed and kennel roof contained bee colonies i thought i would check the other one, this was placed in some woodland near to my house where the public have access and it is popular with dog walkers so it was well stashed in some brambles, i only had...

I finally found the queen in the garden colony today,the green paint that was so clear a few weeks ago was almost rubbed off. I put her into a new hive on the old stand etc.and then realised there are no fully formed queen cells today, i have been destroying them for a couple of weeks as i...